Natasha

@dustylocks They say 'Penny saved is penny earned'. Become a minimalist.

@Mahmoud Bishr Kebbeh I don't take psychedelics and yet get same insights and have same perspective as those who do for consciousness work and enlightenment. Find ways to quiet your mind (meditation) and do self-inquiry - the Truth is accessible, with or without psychedelics. It's just that psychedelics help you dissolve the 'self' faster.

Good one

@Stephyk8 Lisa Cairns

Isn't it Stage Yellow (Tier 2) when you see the other stages? Because you do

@DEV Being is what is, apart from what the mind makes out of it.

Without a direct experience, anything anybody would tell you is a hearsay, so treat it as such.

@kieranperez Get out of the toxic environment, work on your psychology (codependency, cognitive dissonance, learned helplessness, lack of personal boundaries, developing healthy self-love, etc). Also, check out Richard Grannon's vids. Knowledge is power, get empowered! Hugs

Where else do you think the content of your thoughts comes from.. the pink blob of fat we call brain?

Peace, because there is no 'you' to carry or solve anything

From the collective ego-mind

@Ilya Objectifying as thinking in terms of separation. As long as you see yourself as a separate entity (duality), you'll see everything else as 'the other'. Non-dual awareness would help see that this separation is actually an illusion, and from that perspective 'the other'/objectifying is no more. That's why they also call non-duality the Absolute and duality the Object reality. When you objectify, you operate from the latter perspective.

@Ilya By stopping objectifying yourself

@The White Belt Hell assumes duality. In non-dual awareness, there is just No-thing-ness/God. And I liked Joseph's definition of religion I used to worship the idea of Jesus and all this Christmas commotion is bringing bitter-sweet memories back. So good to be free of that.

@Shin Those multi-color bangs are trending right now...lamoda

Lamma tell ya... It's my Birthday today... relatively speaking, of course

It's interesting that the Buddha got awakened by witnessing the suffering of others. So it seems that suffering can lead to disillusionment either way.

I would say, one of the reasons and a more common one.

I mean there is space in your scull and no identity lives there.

It's not about being in trance state. You still go about your daily business, but with a no-self perspective.

Good! Now stabilize in non-duality by embodying it. Yep. That's why meditation alone is not enough. No-self can't be sucked into anything.

Still mind and 0 thought would not be enough. You need a no-mind perspective. No-mind can't trick you

Direct experience would get this matter resolved.

@onacloudynight Meditation will help to calm the monkey-mind. To self-realize, I'm not sure. The Absolute can only be realized from the point of no-self.

@onacloudynight One of the words for enlightenment is self-realization. It's only through realizing your true nature as no-self (self-inquiry is designed to help with that) that would lead to realizing the Absolute.